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Thomas Rotch Letter on Behalf of Richard Williams

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[corresponds to page 1 of Thomas Rotch Letter on Behalf of Richard Williams]
Kendal Stark Co Ohio 1 mo 3d 1820
Respected Friend
The present Occasion of my writing
is in behalf of Richard Williams whose situation with
a large family is such that it will be impossible for
him to pay the several debts now standing against him
within any reasonable time, unless he could sell his farm
for a good price, which he will not be likely to do, under
its present embarrasment. I have called upon him and
he has given me a list of his debts amt to [line] $205.62 1/2
which with the debt he owes me for help from 185.75
time to time amounts to [line] $391.37 1/2
All the property that the law would allow to be
taken, at a fair valuation perhaps might be $182
and if sold at Auction would not be likely to
fetch more than One Quarter say $45 leaving a deficit of
probably $346..37 1/2 This estimate is made from the Invento=
=ry of his Goods & Chattels taken by him and valued by him-
myself and One other person according to the best of Our Judg
ment, his stock is all under execution, the prospect of his
Creditors obtaining their just due from his property may
at once be seen as fallicious. Yet such is my regard for his
family that rather than have them broken up to so little
purpose I am disposed to help him notwithstanding my

[page 1]
[corresponds to page 1 of Thomas Rotch Letter on Behalf of Richard Williams]
Kendal Stark Co Ohio 1 mo 3d 1820
Respected Friend
The present Occasion of my writing
is in behalf of Richard Williams whose situation with
a large family is such that it will be impossible for
him to pay the several debts now standing against him
within any reasonable time, unless he could sell his farm
for a good price, which he will not be likely to do, under
its present embarrasment. I have called upon him and
he has given me a list of his debts amt to [line] $205.62 1/2
which with the debt he owes me for help from 185.75
time to time amounts to [line] $391.37 1/2
All the property that the law would allow to be
taken, at a fair valuation perhaps might be $182
and if sold at Auction would not be likely to
fetch more than One Quarter say $45 leaving a deficit of
probably $346..37 1/2 This estimate is made from the Invento=
=ry of his Goods & Chattels taken by him and valued by him-
myself and One other person according to the best of Our Judg
ment, his stock is all under execution, the prospect of his
Creditors obtaining their just due from his property may
at once be seen as fallicious. Yet such is my regard for his
family that rather than have them broken up to so little
purpose I am disposed to help him notwithstanding my